Mark Affleck
@flick131.bsky.social
USAF RET (24 yrs), Cornhusker at heart, NC by choice. Married animal wrangler: 3 dogs, 6 cats, 3 guinea pigs & a turtle. 65 & just getting started!
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Mark Affleck
@flick131.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Trump shitshow continues:
Meanwhile I’m conducting advanced research on the structural integrity of my recliner while running experiments with the TV remote. Controlled indoor environment, no vegetation required.
Meanwhile I’m conducting advanced research on the structural integrity of my recliner while running experiments with the TV remote. Controlled indoor environment, no vegetation required.
It’s in the documents!!
Read the documents!!!
Read the documents!!!
December 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It’s in the documents!!
Read the documents!!!
Read the documents!!!
DOJ-released Epstein records include a witness statement alleging “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein,” describing fear of reporting (“they will kill me”), references to Epstein’s NY mansion, and noting the woman was later found dead. Allegations in records,
December 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
DOJ-released Epstein records include a witness statement alleging “Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein,” describing fear of reporting (“they will kill me”), references to Epstein’s NY mansion, and noting the woman was later found dead. Allegations in records,
Trump missing who knew? Thousands of pages, elite names everywhere, and the one guy who never shuts up somehow vanishes. Not innocent, not exonerated just erased. This isn’t transparency, it’s a cover sheet for a cover-up.
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trump missing who knew? Thousands of pages, elite names everywhere, and the one guy who never shuts up somehow vanishes. Not innocent, not exonerated just erased. This isn’t transparency, it’s a cover sheet for a cover-up.
The GOP is screaming about “$9B in fraud under Walz” while ignoring that Trump‑era PPP and unemployment programs lost tens of billions to fraud and red states like Florida and Texas had huge failures too. This isn’t about stopping fraud, it’s about weaponizing it.
www.foxnews.com/politics/mag...
www.foxnews.com/politics/mag...
Magnitude ‘cannot be overstated’: Feds say Minnesota fraud may be more than $9B
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson held a press conference Thursday revealing five new charges in Minnesota's exploding fraud scandal and commented on the full scope.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The GOP is screaming about “$9B in fraud under Walz” while ignoring that Trump‑era PPP and unemployment programs lost tens of billions to fraud and red states like Florida and Texas had huge failures too. This isn’t about stopping fraud, it’s about weaponizing it.
www.foxnews.com/politics/mag...
www.foxnews.com/politics/mag...
DFAS can’t pay unfunded money.
If Congress didn’t authorize and appropriate it, DFAS legally cannot issue checks. Doing so would violate federal law (Antideficiency Act). No funding = no payment, no matter what’s promised on TV.
If Congress didn’t authorize and appropriate it, DFAS legally cannot issue checks. Doing so would violate federal law (Antideficiency Act). No funding = no payment, no matter what’s promised on TV.
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
DFAS can’t pay unfunded money.
If Congress didn’t authorize and appropriate it, DFAS legally cannot issue checks. Doing so would violate federal law (Antideficiency Act). No funding = no payment, no matter what’s promised on TV.
If Congress didn’t authorize and appropriate it, DFAS legally cannot issue checks. Doing so would violate federal law (Antideficiency Act). No funding = no payment, no matter what’s promised on TV.
Watching GOP reps suddenly rush to save ACA subsidies after years of stalling is pure hypocrisy. They knew this cliff was coming. They waited until premiums, voters, and 2026 math scared them. This wasn’t courage it was self-preservation. Remember this. Come election. apnews.com/article/1087...
Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies
Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care. They've signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhance...
apnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Watching GOP reps suddenly rush to save ACA subsidies after years of stalling is pure hypocrisy. They knew this cliff was coming. They waited until premiums, voters, and 2026 math scared them. This wasn’t courage it was self-preservation. Remember this. Come election. apnews.com/article/1087...
BLS headlines look positive, but outside checks don’t confirm it. ADP payrolls are flat, IRS withholding barely growing, Fed regional data shows hiring freezes, and QCEW history suggests overstatement late-cycle. Net jobs likely ~0 to –30k/month, not +40k.
December 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
BLS headlines look positive, but outside checks don’t confirm it. ADP payrolls are flat, IRS withholding barely growing, Fed regional data shows hiring freezes, and QCEW history suggests overstatement late-cycle. Net jobs likely ~0 to –30k/month, not +40k.
NYT finds Epstein’s wealth was largely an illusion: no clear business, opaque deals, and money tied to a few powerful patrons. Banks and elites enabled him despite red flags. His finances functioned more like influence-laundering than a real fortune.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
NYT finds Epstein’s wealth was largely an illusion: no clear business, opaque deals, and money tied to a few powerful patrons. Banks and elites enabled him despite red flags. His finances functioned more like influence-laundering than a real fortune.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...
Spilling the tea then crying “out of context” is pressure, not confusion. The quotes stand because they were intentional. This is reputational triage under stress. She knows what’s coming, tried to get ahead of it, and blinked. Still think she’s gone.
December 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Spilling the tea then crying “out of context” is pressure, not confusion. The quotes stand because they were intentional. This is reputational triage under stress. She knows what’s coming, tried to get ahead of it, and blinked. Still think she’s gone.
This isn’t bravery, it’s pre-emptive distancing. She knows what’s about to surface and is positioning the record. Staying while warning isn’t restraint it’s enabling. When insiders start narrating instead of shielding, collapse is already priced in. 2026 will be ugly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This isn’t bravery, it’s pre-emptive distancing. She knows what’s about to surface and is positioning the record. Staying while warning isn’t restraint it’s enabling. When insiders start narrating instead of shielding, collapse is already priced in. 2026 will be ugly.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
Snowflakes sues. Who files this many lawsuits? By 2016, USA Today documented 4,095 cases against Trump. He’s also filed at least 1,600 himself nearly 5,700 total. That’s not persecution. It’s a lifelong addiction to litigation and grievance.
a man in a suit and tie says " i 'm sorry snowflake " to another man
ALT: a man in a suit and tie says " i 'm sorry snowflake " to another man
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Snowflakes sues. Who files this many lawsuits? By 2016, USA Today documented 4,095 cases against Trump. He’s also filed at least 1,600 himself nearly 5,700 total. That’s not persecution. It’s a lifelong addiction to litigation and grievance.
Wealth is not a thing.
It’s a relationship:
who controls surplus and future labor.
It’s a relationship:
who controls surplus and future labor.
a man dressed as abraham lincoln stands in front of an airplane holding a stack of money
ALT: a man dressed as abraham lincoln stands in front of an airplane holding a stack of money
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wealth is not a thing.
It’s a relationship:
who controls surplus and future labor.
It’s a relationship:
who controls surplus and future labor.
Trump bends reality faster than Einstein bent spacetime because repetition, grievance, and spectacle can overwhelm evidence, rewrite narratives in real time, and make falsehoods feel familiar enough to pass as truth.
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Trump bends reality faster than Einstein bent spacetime because repetition, grievance, and spectacle can overwhelm evidence, rewrite narratives in real time, and make falsehoods feel familiar enough to pass as truth.
ICE should face the same reckoning as the Stasi abolition, seized records, open archives, and real accountability. Without dismantling the institution and ending secrecy, “oversight” is just theater and impunity survives.
December 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ICE should face the same reckoning as the Stasi abolition, seized records, open archives, and real accountability. Without dismantling the institution and ending secrecy, “oversight” is just theater and impunity survives.
Kevin Hassett is Trump’s top economic adviser and head of the National Economic Council a loyalist, not a central banker. Him saying he’d “consider Trump’s views” on rates while claiming Fed independence is the joke. Politics + monetary policy = disaster, lmao.
homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a sign that says the end is near
ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a sign that says the end is near
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Kevin Hassett is Trump’s top economic adviser and head of the National Economic Council a loyalist, not a central banker. Him saying he’d “consider Trump’s views” on rates while claiming Fed independence is the joke. Politics + monetary policy = disaster, lmao.
White nationalism isn’t fading Phil Williams at NewsChannel 5 exposes how groups like American Renaissance disguise racist ideology as “academic debate,” quietly organizing in plain sight. This is how extremism normalizes itself. Journalism matters. Awareness is defense
youtube.com/watch?v=mQwR...
youtube.com/watch?v=mQwR...
Here's who attended a white nationalist conference at a Tenn. state park
YouTube video by NewsChannel 5
youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
White nationalism isn’t fading Phil Williams at NewsChannel 5 exposes how groups like American Renaissance disguise racist ideology as “academic debate,” quietly organizing in plain sight. This is how extremism normalizes itself. Journalism matters. Awareness is defense
youtube.com/watch?v=mQwR...
youtube.com/watch?v=mQwR...
🚨 Pedophiles IN PLAIN SIGHT 🚨
Photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show Donald Trump and Bill Clinton inside his world. Not allegations evidence of pedophiles. Power, access, silence. The question isn’t who appears it’s what was protected, hidden, and never exposed. www.wsj.com/politics/dem...
Photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show Donald Trump and Bill Clinton inside his world. Not allegations evidence of pedophiles. Power, access, silence. The question isn’t who appears it’s what was protected, hidden, and never exposed. www.wsj.com/politics/dem...
New Epstein Photos Released by Democrats Show Donald Trump, Bill Clinton
The images are undated selections from thousands turned over by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to Congress.
www.wsj.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🚨 Pedophiles IN PLAIN SIGHT 🚨
Photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show Donald Trump and Bill Clinton inside his world. Not allegations evidence of pedophiles. Power, access, silence. The question isn’t who appears it’s what was protected, hidden, and never exposed. www.wsj.com/politics/dem...
Photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show Donald Trump and Bill Clinton inside his world. Not allegations evidence of pedophiles. Power, access, silence. The question isn’t who appears it’s what was protected, hidden, and never exposed. www.wsj.com/politics/dem...
Trump World is a “snake pit” where leaks are strategic weaponry. Reporters and aides regularly feed stories aimed at weakening rivals or boosting their own influence.
December 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Trump World is a “snake pit” where leaks are strategic weaponry. Reporters and aides regularly feed stories aimed at weakening rivals or boosting their own influence.
Kash Patel (FBI Director)
Rumor: Patel is a prime candidate for replacement amid management complaints and negative headlines. 
Insider Reality:
Trump aides publicly dismissed rumors.
Patel is portrayed by allies as loyal and credited with some operational wins.
Patel appears secure for now
Rumor: Patel is a prime candidate for replacement amid management complaints and negative headlines. 
Insider Reality:
Trump aides publicly dismissed rumors.
Patel is portrayed by allies as loyal and credited with some operational wins.
Patel appears secure for now
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Kash Patel (FBI Director)
Rumor: Patel is a prime candidate for replacement amid management complaints and negative headlines. 
Insider Reality:
Trump aides publicly dismissed rumors.
Patel is portrayed by allies as loyal and credited with some operational wins.
Patel appears secure for now
Rumor: Patel is a prime candidate for replacement amid management complaints and negative headlines. 
Insider Reality:
Trump aides publicly dismissed rumors.
Patel is portrayed by allies as loyal and credited with some operational wins.
Patel appears secure for now
Kristi Noem (DHS)
Rumor: She could be fired due to immigration frustrations and influence by figures like Stephen Miller. 
What Insiders Say:
Some internal questions about her ambitions and media spending on immigration ads.
Her association with Corey Lewandowski creates friction
Rumor: She could be fired due to immigration frustrations and influence by figures like Stephen Miller. 
What Insiders Say:
Some internal questions about her ambitions and media spending on immigration ads.
Her association with Corey Lewandowski creates friction
December 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Kristi Noem (DHS)
Rumor: She could be fired due to immigration frustrations and influence by figures like Stephen Miller. 
What Insiders Say:
Some internal questions about her ambitions and media spending on immigration ads.
Her association with Corey Lewandowski creates friction
Rumor: She could be fired due to immigration frustrations and influence by figures like Stephen Miller. 
What Insiders Say:
Some internal questions about her ambitions and media spending on immigration ads.
Her association with Corey Lewandowski creates friction
NYT reports Barron Trump had contact with Andrew Tate’s circle and received advice, linking him to a manosphere figure facing serious trafficking and rape charges. Barron’s total public silence only heightens concerns about unaccountable influence near power.
www.nytimes.com/search?query...
www.nytimes.com/search?query...
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
NYT reports Barron Trump had contact with Andrew Tate’s circle and received advice, linking him to a manosphere figure facing serious trafficking and rape charges. Barron’s total public silence only heightens concerns about unaccountable influence near power.
www.nytimes.com/search?query...
www.nytimes.com/search?query...
Democrats keep fighting a knife fight with a rulebook while Trump and MAGA fight like there are no rules at all. I’m DONE with the timid approach. You can’t win a street fight with polite statements. This is democracy on the line act like it.
December 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Democrats keep fighting a knife fight with a rulebook while Trump and MAGA fight like there are no rules at all. I’m DONE with the timid approach. You can’t win a street fight with polite statements. This is democracy on the line act like it.
Wow, another totally accidental ‘declassified’ China threat map in the NYT right before budget season. I’m sure it has nothing to do with pushing Congress to spend billions more. Just a friendly reminder from the Pentagon that the answer is always: not enough money.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
a group of men are sitting around a table with a sign that says canada
ALT: a group of men are sitting around a table with a sign that says canada
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wow, another totally accidental ‘declassified’ China threat map in the NYT right before budget season. I’m sure it has nothing to do with pushing Congress to spend billions more. Just a friendly reminder from the Pentagon that the answer is always: not enough money.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Alina Habba heroically resigns from a job multiple courts already said she couldn’t legally hold. Truly a profile in courage: illegally appointed, ruled ineligible, then spun as a dignified exit to ‘protect the integrity’ of the office. Sure, guys.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
a bald man making a peace sign with the words sure if you say so
ALT: a bald man making a peace sign with the words sure if you say so
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Alina Habba heroically resigns from a job multiple courts already said she couldn’t legally hold. Truly a profile in courage: illegally appointed, ruled ineligible, then spun as a dignified exit to ‘protect the integrity’ of the office. Sure, guys.
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...